Roberto Barbera ( roberto.barbera@ctfn.it ) on behalf of Antonella Fresa (ICCU – Italy )

1. Digital Cultural Heritage e-InfrastructuresDC-NET: Digital Cultural Heritage Network INDICATE: International Network for a Digital Cultural Heritage e-Infrastructure TELDAP 2011 Taipei, 17 March 2011 Roberto Barbera (roberto.barbera@ct.infn.it) on behalf ofAntonella Fresa (ICCU – Italy)

2. The Digital Cultural Heritage ecosystem EUROPEANA «Linked» Heritage DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE e-INFRASTRUCTURES DATA MODEL, ORGANISATION, GOVERNANCE RECOMMENDATIONS & GUIDELINES NATIONAL & REGIONAL INITIATIVES 2002 2005 2009 2011 2014 Roberto Barbera, COMETA Taipei, 17/03/2011 2

3. «Preparatory» initiatives • MINERVA: Platform of guidelines and recommendations for the digitisation of cultural heritage; • MICHAEL: Multiligual service to provide access to the Europeandigital cultural collections; • ATHENA and LINKED HERITAGE: two Best practice networks in the area of Europeana Roberto Barbera, COMETA Taipei, 17/03/2011 3

4. Europeana(www.europeana.eu) • Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. • It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage. • Ideas and inspiration can be found within the more than 15 million items on Europeana. These objects include: • Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects • Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers • Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts • Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts Roberto Barbera, COMETA Taipei, 17/03/2011 4

5. Where are we ? The last 10 years have been devoted to: • initiate the mass digitization in Europe • develop a common platform of standards and recommendation for digitization • create portals and websites The current challenges: • To reduce cost of digitization and to increase volume of data to a real “critical mass” • To create advanced services for access, use, re-use and preservation of digital content • To integrate different sources of data into a common infrastructure for the research and the “citizens researchers” e-Infrastructures can play a keyrole ! Roberto Barbera, COMETA Taipei, 17/03/2011

6. The Strategy Three maindirections: • To bring people together and to establish a dialoguebetween the Digital Cultural Heritage and the ICT communities (workinggroups, internationalconferences &publications) • To explore how e-Infrastructures can add value to the research in the digital cultural heritage and to anticipate a range of services (focused seminars and workshops, on use cases) • To develop and to endorse a Joint Plan of Activities (commitment from the stakeholders) Roberto Barbera, COMETA Taipei, 17/03/2011

7. Kick-off meeting 9-10 September 2010 The Actions • Identify the researchprioritiesand develop a join plan of activities (DC-NET focus) • Stimulate the international cooperation of networks of e-Infrastructures providers and users (INDICATE focus, Mediterranean Area asmain target) 7 Roberto Barbera, COMETA Taipei, 17/03/2011

8. DC-NET at a glance(www.dc-net.eu) • DC-NET is an ERA-NET aiming to the coordination of programmes • Research field: e-infrastructure for the digital cultural heritage • Duration: 24 months • Starting 1st December 2009 • Main objective: • To generate a powerful and comprehensive plan of joint activities for the implementation of a new data and service e-Infrastructure for the research in the fi eld of the Digital Cultural Heritage Roberto Barbera, COMETA Taipei, 17/03/2011

9. DC-NET Partners(Ministries from 7 EU countries) • Italy: Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali - Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (coordinator) • (*) Belgium: Politiquescientifiquefédéral/FederaalWetenschapsbeleid - STIS • Estonia: EestiVabariigiKultuuriministeerium • France: Ministère de la Culture e la Communication – Mission de la Recherce • Greece: ΥπουργείοΠολιτισμού [Hellenic Ministry of Culture] • Hungary: OktatásiKulturálisMinisztérium • Slovenia: Ministrstvo za Kulturo Slovenia • (*) Sweden:Riksarchivet (*) in Belgium & Sweden partners were delegated from their respective national/regional Ministries Roberto Barbera, COMETA Taipei, 17/03/2011

10. DC-NET activities and «actors» Roberto Barbera, COMETA Taipei, 17/03/2011

11. INDICATE at a glance(www.indicate-project.eu) • INDICATE is a Coordination Action funded by the EU FP7 targeted to the Mediterranean region • Research field: e-infrastructure for the digital cultural heritage • Duration: 24 months • Starting 1st September 2010 Roberto Barbera, COMETA Taipei, 17/03/2011 11

12. INDICATE Partners • Italy: Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali - Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (coordinator) • Italy: Consotium GARR • Italy: ConsorzioCOMETA • France: Ministère de la Culture e la Communication • Greece: National Technical University of Athens • Spain: I2CAT Foundation • Slovenia: Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage • Egypt: CULTNAT • Jordan: Department of Antiquities • Turkey: Ministry of Culture and Tourism Roberto Barbera, COMETA Taipei, 17/03/2011 12

13. INDICATE objectives • To establish a long-term network of common interest, following a tried and tested approach using working groups and high-quality publications; • To deliver a range of demonstrators (two pilot appli-cationsand three case studies) that address the main priorities for the research in the Digital Cultural He-ritage (in each case, these are not new R&D but instead the porting of existing work to the e-Infra-structure platform, with subsequent analysis and lesson learning); • To establish the dialog between e-Infrastructure and DCH experts that are not used to work together. 13 Roberto Barbera, COMETA Rome, 24/01/2011

14. The relationshipbetween INDICATE and DC-NET DC-NET is the ERA-NET for the new e-Infrastructure dedicated to the research on the digital cultural heritage; INDICATE is based on the results of DC-NET: • the research priorities that can enable the activation of new advances services; • the Joint Activities Plan, agreedamongEuropeanMinistries of Culture, to start the implementation of the new e-Infrastructure. Roberto Barbera, COMETA Taipei, 17/03/2011 14

15. DC-NET and INDICATE INDICATE The twoprojectsrun in parallel for more than 1 year; Theyhave some partners in common: • ICCU and MCC • NTUA and AAS thatprovidetechnologicalsupport the DC-NET partnersfromGreece and Slovenia • GARR and COMETA thatparticipateto the DC-NET workinggroups DC-NET 1/12/2009 1/9/2010 30/11/2011 31/8/2012 15

16. Kick-off meeting 9-10 September 2010 DC-NET and INDICATE DC-NET hasstarted the work on the new area of the digital cultural heritageenabledby the e-Infrastructures. INDICATE continuesthis work byexploiting the DC-NET results at internationallevel, with a special focus on the Mediterraneanregion, aimingto: • involvingnewpartnersin the disseminationof the the DC-NET results • developingpilots and case studies, to put intopractice the prioritiesidentifiedby DC-NET Roberto Barbera, COMETA Taipei, 17/03/2011 16

17. Kick-off meeting 9-10 September 2010 Network of common interest • To establish a network of researchers and experts in e-Infrastructures and cultural heritage; • To foster the dialog among different actors and different countries which are not used to work together; • To share knowledge of applicable standards; • To work on a long-term basis and to continue beyond the project life time. Roberto Barbera, COMETA Taipei, 17/03/2011 17

18. Target audience A wide range of targets: • Cultural heritageorganisations (museums, libraries, archives and Ministries of Culture); • International associations of memoryinstitutions (e.g., NEMO, EMF, ICOM, EBLIDA, CENL, etc.); • E-Infrastructures providers (NRENs, NGIs, etc.); • International bodies for e-infrastructures (DANTE, TERENA, EGI.eu); • Ministries and state agencies who are responsible for funding of e-Infrastructures; • International policy bodies for large ResearchInfrastructures (e-IRG, ESFRI); • Researchorganisations (universities, private and public research centres); • Other projects in the digital culture and in the e-Infrastructure area (e.g., DARIAH, CHAIN, EPIKH, etc.). 18

19. Kick-off meeting 9-10 September 2010 DC-NET public events 2 workshops: • Tallinn – e-infrastructureconcertation meeting (13-14 January 2011) • Paris – New Servicesworkshops (9-10 February 2011) 2 International Conferences, under the aegisof the EU Presidencies: • Brussels, 29 October 2010 (proceedingsavailable on the website) • Budapest, 23-24 June 2011 Roberto Barbera, COMETA Taipei, 17/03/2011 19

20. Kick-off meeting 9-10 September 2010 INDICATE public events 4 workshops: • Turkey – Digital Preservation (June/July 2011) • Jordan – Virtual exhibitions (September/October 2011) • Slovenia – Geo-codeddigital cultural content (February/March 2011) • France – Strategies and Future plans (June/July 2012) International Conference: Cairo, April 2012 Roberto Barbera, COMETA Taipei, 17/03/2011 20

21. Kick-off meeting 9-10 September 2010 BoF @ TERENA Conference(Prague, 17 May 2011) • Title: • «Building eCulturecommunities in the research networking environment» • Organiser: • I2CAT Foundation (Spain) • Goal: • To create a task force on eCulture inside TERENA, starting with the Cultural Heritage community • Alreadyconfirmedparticipants: • DC-NET and INDICATE; • TERENA, Internet2, GARR, IRCAM, etc.; • Country stakeholders from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, etc.; • VISIONAIR (an EU-FP7 project on visualization). Roberto Barbera, COMETA Taipei, 17/03/2011 21

22. Kick-off meeting 9-10 September 2010 DC-NET/INDICATE Workshop (Beijing, 26 May 2011) • Title: • «e-Infrastructures and Digital Cultural Heritage» • Goal: • To present the activities, going on in Europe and China, on the use of e-Infrastructures for the preservation of Cultural Heritage • Location: • Central Library of the PekingUniversity. • Website: • http://agenda.ct.infn.it/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=547 • Registration is already open. Roberto Barbera, COMETA Taipei, 17/03/2011 22

23. Summary and Conclusions • DC-NET and INDICATE represent a combined effort to raise the awareness and foster the use of e-Infrastructures in Digital Cultural Heritage: • They will have an impact on: • e-Infrastructures: use of the e-Infrastructures by a new community (the DCH) with new important requirements; • European, national and international Cultural Heritage Programmes:new advanced services and applications; • Cultural Heritage Research: awareness, shared guidelines, common standards; • General Public: online museums and cultural exhibitions, libraries and archives more accessible, usable and re-usable digital cultural content for education, cultural tourism, long-life learning, non-professional cultural interests, etc. Roberto Barbera, COMETA Taipei, 17/03/2011 23

24. Thankyou for yourattention! Ifyouwant to know more, pleasecontact: Antonella Fresa (DC-NET and INDICATE Technical Coordinator) antonella.fresa@beniculturali.it info@dc-net.eu info@indicate-project.eu or visit: www.dc-net.eu www.indicate-project.eu